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The first of the new final selector racks which are being installed in the new Gisborne automatic telephone exchange, being inspected by the exchange senior technician, Mr D. P. Lane, and Mr I. J. Mallett, post office district engineer. The rack will handle 200 subscribers, and with the installation of the remaining racks, the exchange will have capacity for an additional 3700 lines.

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Mr Phil Percival, pictured with the 400 and 300lb sharks he caught with a hand-line off Tolaga Bay from the fishing trawler Sea Harvest.

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No need for a watch with this job......Gisborne painter Murray Collier adds the finishing touches to the face of the town clock during its painting late last year.

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Mr O. Swarbrick, Queens Road, exhibiting an unusual bone he picked up off the beach near the abattoirs. He is sending the bone to the Gisborne Museum as, to date, it has been unidentified.